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| An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption, which tried to stop the United States from becoming a nation of drunkards. |
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| Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention |
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| An early and influential women's rights convention. |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| Created by women's rights reformers and stated that they wanted equal pay for equal labor. They also wanted the rights to vote, own property, get an education, and lead religious ceremonies. |
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| A leader at the Seneca Falls convention, who presented the Declaration of Sentiments. |
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| World Anti-Slavery Convention |
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| An abolitionist convention held in London in 1840. It brought together European and American abolitionists to discuss the issue of slavery. |
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| It is also known as the Protestant Revival. Their movement was rooted in religious faith and even though they believed that God was all-powerful, they also thought that people made their own fate. They spent time preaching sermons, helping slaves escape, and demanding rights for women. |
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| A preacher, who set out to reform the western states. He taught that good people would be able to form a good county and many of his children became important figures in other reform movements. |
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| The leader of the transcendental movement. He believed that people could be conscious of nature's spirit and supported other reforms of the time. |
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| A well-known figure of the transcendental movement. He stayed at Walden Pond, which was owned by Emerson, and wrote a book there. He was also an abolitionist. |
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| A movement, comprised of a group of writers and philosophers, that rejected traditional religion and conforming to society. |
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| The first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He believed that everyone had the right to an education and began splitting students by grade and keeping the curriculum constant. His efforts resulted in an increase of public schools in other states. |
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| A self-educated schoolteacher. He published his own textbook, which promoted Protestant values, such as obedience, honesty, and temperance. |
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| A teacher, who discovered the terrible conditions in many Massachusetts prisons. She submitted a detailed report of the horrors to the state legislature and it convinced the state to improve prison conditions and build separate mental institutions. |
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| A compromise between southern and northern, which stated that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for representation purposes, regarding the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| The movement to end slavery. |
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| A slave woman, who wrote about her horrible experiences with the institution of slavery. She used that narrative to raise awareness. |
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| David Walker and his Appeal |
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| A free black businessman. His appeal was for an anti-slavery pamphlet, which he would put in the pockets of clothes that he repaired for sailors. He welcomed Abdul Rahman in Boston |
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| American Anti-Slavery Society |
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| Wanted to unite smaller anti-slavery groups and advocate for emancipation. Played a dominant role on the abolitionist movement and ended with controversy over women's roles in the movement and the moral vs. legal reasons for abolishing slavery. |
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| Wanted to capture Richmond and kill whites. Stopped by heavy rain and militia forces and nearly thirty slaves were killed. Scared slave owners into introducing new restrictions. |
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| Wanted to seize town's federal arsenal and to distribute weapons to local slaves. Their leader, John Brown, and seventeen others were executed. The tension increased and Brown became a martyr for the abolitionist movement. |
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| Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad |
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| Wanted to bring slaves to safety in the north (Canada). Guided three hundred slaves to freedom and Tubman became a spokesperson for the abolitionist movement. Tension continued to increase between the north and the south. |
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| Wanted to organize the northwestern territory of the county and create new states. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin were formed and slavery was prohibited in these states. |
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| Wanted to keep the balance between slave states and free states. Missouri was allowed to become a slave state, but Maine had to be formed from Massachusetts as a free state. |
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| Wanted to murder as many white people as possible. Ended up killing 55 people before they were stopped by army troops. Turner was hanged. |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Wanted to show the horrible conditions that slavery created and to have a black person as the hero of a book. It infuriated Southerners, but fueled the anti-slavery movement in the North. |
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| A slave who was captured and brought to America. He began a tumultuous journey to get back to his kingdom, Futa Jallon. |
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| A farmer who bought Abdul Rahman. |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| An organization that supported the return of free blacks to what was considered greater freedom in Africa, in order for them to spread Christianity. |
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| Frederick Douglass and Richard Allen on Colonization |
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Douglass: Colonization is a red heron, trying to distract us from the real issue, which is emancipation.
Allen: The Declaration of Independence is hypocritical, but colonization in Canada would be the best option. |
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| Blacks are being selfish if they do not agree to colonize in Liberia. |
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